Scenario:During her conference period, an 8th grade Reading/English teacher, Nicole Ellis, first approached the librarian, Samantha Fleming, with the idea for a cross-curricular project using a novel the students were reading in their history class. Mrs. Ellis wanted to have her students research the location of each chapter in the historical novel and have the students create tags of the location in Google Earth and insert their research findings (incl. media - pictures, time period maps, etc). All the tags will then be connected and saved into one Google Earth file so that students can "walk" through the novel.
Mrs. Ellis requested that the librarian help her instruct the students on taking proper information for their bibliographies and for help in monitoring the students' use of electronic resources. As Google Earth had recently been downloaded to the library computer lab, Ms. Fleming was eager to collaborate with Mrs. Ellis on the utilization of this learning tool and the opportunity for students to practice research and citation skills.
Mrs. Fleming notified the administrators of her collaborative activities with Mrs. Ellis via her biweekly library activities report.
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Scenario: During her conference period, an 8th grade Reading/English teacher, Nicole Ellis, first approached the librarian, Samantha Fleming, with the idea for a cross-curricular project using a novel the students were reading in their history class. Mrs. Ellis wanted to have her students research the location of each chapter in the historical novel and have the students create tags of the location in Google Earth and insert their research findings (incl. media - pictures, time period maps, etc). All the tags will then be connected and saved into one Google Earth file so that students can "walk" through the novel.
Mrs. Ellis requested that the librarian help her instruct the students on taking proper information for their bibliographies and for help in monitoring the students' use of electronic resources. As Google Earth had recently been downloaded to the library computer lab, Ms. Fleming was eager to collaborate with Mrs. Ellis on the utilization of this learning tool and the opportunity for students to practice research and citation skills.
Mrs. Fleming notified the administrators of her collaborative activities with Mrs. Ellis via her biweekly library activities report.